Load Balancer Health Checks Quiz

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Quiz covering Latency and Load Balancing

What you'll be asked

  1. What is the primary purpose of a load balancer health check?
  2. When configuring an HTTP health check, which response code typically indicates that the target server is healthy?
  3. If a load balancer is configured with a 'Healthy Threshold' of 3, what does this mean?
  4. Why might a load balancer mark a server as 'Unhealthy' even if the server's CPU and RAM usage are low?
  5. You notice 'flapping' (servers constantly switching between healthy and unhealthy states). Which configuration change is the most effective way to stabilize this without ignoring genuine outages?

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